BOOSTING ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS Erasmus Project

Project Title

BOOSTING ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

Context
The project has been drawn with the intention of bringing students from different European countries closer, creating space for learning from each other and gathering so as work on common goals. Sophisticated as it may seem, entrepreneurship should be a key skill of modern citizens, thus it is not astonishing that they should learn it as early as at a primary level. Students’ sense of initiative creates a space for personal growth and will enable them to find an area where they may become leaders at later on.
Needless to say, benefits of the strive to inculcate some entrepreneurial skills into students will pay off in the future. Modern and entrepreneurially-aware students will find it easy to push their ideas even in the times of economic changes and uncertainty and in the areas of low-income, where almost all these schools are based.
Such a skill confronts to the Recommendation 2006/962/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning. The idea behind the project, which is sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, constitutes one of the eight competences laid out in the framework.

Objectives
1. To endow students with tools to develop their sense of initiative
2. To discover and explore opportunities that the UE gives
3. To spread tolerance and popularize diversity juxtaposing European cultures
4. To give space for international collaboration with the richness of cultures
5. To improve communicative and language skills of students
6. To gain some knowledge connected with entrepreneurship
7. To spread the idea and knowledge of start-ups
8. To focus on the development of creativity and critical thinking
9. To form ground for cooperation between schools and local entrepreneurs

Participants
The target group consists of approximately 200 students who are 12-14 years-old
Students facing social, economic, integration challenges will be fully supported to engage in the activities, so as to encourage their participation.
The actual participants will be 80 students, out of whom 20 are facing various challenges (C2-C5) and 48 teachers – 16 teachers attend C1, while 32 mobilities for accompanying teachers are planned for C2-C5.

Transnational events
Turkey – C1 – Nov 2018; Start-ups. Financial and Management Basics – short term joint staff training event
Macedonia – C2 – April 2019; Entrepreneurial skills and competences – student exchange
Romania – C3 – Oct 2019; Start-up ideas from around Europe – student exchange –
Bulgaria – C4 – Feb 2020; Start-ups and advertising – student exchange
Spain – C5 – May 2020. Start-ups – Going online – Student exchange

Results
Some results we plan to produce are: workshop materials (theoretical aspects as well as worksheets, students’ collaborative products, recorded performances of students, exercises to develop creativity, negotiation, communication, planning skills), meetings with local entrepreneurs, interviews designed by students, business ideas developed at a basic level which will be included in the project final brochure, and finally an EE Kit for lower-secondary students.
We also want to reach a set of outcomes, among which improved personal skills, improved cooperation of teachers and students at European level, more prepared and more motivated students, improved knowledge of European similarities and differences.
Impact
Students will get acquainted with entrepreneurship and will become more knowledgeable about what a start-up is, what resources are necessary to initiate it and how they can promote and advertise it. This will improve, in the short run, their performance in other school projects.
The project will improve the expertise of each school in terms of international cooperation. It will enable teachers and students in the same school to cooperate, thus improving their working relationships. Therefore, better cohesion will be attained in each school. The teachers and students will become better organisers, will improve their planning and problem-solving skills, thus achieving long-term benefits.
The success of the project and the positive impact it will have on the participants will prompt the teaching staffs in schools to continue their European initiatives and apply for future Erasmus+ projects.

Project Website

http://boostingentrepreneurialskillserasmusplus.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56346,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

ST MARY’S SCHOOL-COLEGIO SANTA MARIA BELLAVISTA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Opshtinsko Osnovno Uchilishte Dimkata Angelov Gaberot s. Vatasha, Macedonia
• Secondary School “D-r Peter Beron”, Pazardzhik
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “MIRON COSTIN”
• MEHMET SAIT AYDOSLU ORTAOKULU